Study: Sticking to the sand might not be such good, clean fun for beachgoers
... ... Published in the July 1 issue of Environmental Science and Technology, the study found that sand at beaches all along the California coast contained some level of fecal indicator bacteria. Moreover, when the researchers looked closely at the sand quality at a popular beach in Monterey, Calif., they found evide...Success or failure of antidepressant citalopram predicted by gene variation
A variation in a gene called GRIK4 appears to make people with depression more likely to respond to the medication citalopram (Celexa) than are people without the variation, a study by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), part of the National Institutes of Health, has found. The increased likelihood was small, but when people had both this variation and one in a different gene shown t...Faster-acting antidepressants closer to becoming a reality
... Ketamine blocks a...UC Santa Barbara scientists clarify molecular basis of interferon action
... ... The findings will be published in the Journal of Virology in August (Volume 81, issue 15), and...OHSU scientists find antidepressant, bone loss link
... ... The studies appear in today's issue of Archives of I...Research without borders: Head of Santa Fe Institute to address NSF
... ... ... ... ... Where: National Science Foundation... 4201 Wilson Boulevard... Arlington, Va.... Room 1235... ... Many of the most challengi...Origins of nervous system found in genes of sea sponge, report scientists at UC Santa Barbara
... ... It turns out that sponges, which lack nervous systems,...Fire ants are emerging nuisance for Virginians
... "Virginia Cooperative Extension has begun a research and outreach program to train Extension agents and industry officials in southeastern Virginia about this emerging problem," said Dini...Revelle family endows UC San Diego chair honoring Roger Revelle
The University of California, San Diego, has established the Roger Revelle Chair in Environmental Science at Scripps Institution of Oceanography to honor Roger Revelle, one of the worlds most highly regarded oceanographers, who also is considered to be the father of UC San Diego. A $2.5 million gift from Revelles wife, Ellen, and family represents the largest single donation ever made for an end...Ocean observing contracts awarded to UC San Diego and University of Washington
... JOI President Steve Bohlen said...Antidepressants stimulate new nerve cells in adult monkeys, may have implications for humans
... The results, the first from nonhuman primates, are similar to those previously seen in rodents. They suggest that creation of new nerve cells, a process known as neurogenesis, is an important part of antidepressant therapy. Researcher Tarique Perera, MD, at Columbia Universit...Latest plant health research to be presented in San Diego
... "This year's meeting will once again provide the opportunity to broaden our scientific interactions as we meet jointly with the Society of Nematologists in beautiful San Diego," said Ray Martyn, APS president-elect and co-chair of the meeting p...Ebola outbreaks killing thousands of gorillas and chimpanzees
... Direct encounters between gorilla or chimpanzee social groups are rare. Therefore, when reports of large ape die-offs first surfaced in the late 1990s, outbreak amplification was...World's top engineers in San Antonio for system of systems conference
... More than 200 attendees representing 15 countries including Australia, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, India, Japan and the United States are expected to attend. Conference highlights include tours and demonstrations from the research facilities at UTSA and Southwest Research I...Sandia researchers take new approach to studying how cells respond to pathogens
... ... Called the Microscale Immune Studies Laboratory (MISL) Grand Challenge, the work is in its second of three years of funding by the internal Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) program. Sandia is partnering on the project with the University of Texas Medical...UC San Diego supercomputer simulations may pinpoint causes of Parkinson's, Alzheimer's diseases
... A study published in this weeks Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) Journal offers for the first time a model for the complex process of aggregation of a protein known as alpha-synuclein, which in turn leads to harmful ring-like or pore-like structures in human membranes, the kind of damage found in Parkinsons and Alzheimers patients.<...San Diego stem cell consortium tops in state funding
... Since late last year, the consortium of UC San Diego, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, Salk Institute for Biological Studies and The Scripps Research Institute has received 29 grants totaling $37,336,063 to conduct life-saving work in human embryonic stem cell research. SDCRM, established in March 2006 as a nonprofit entity, marshals the intellectual resources of four world leaders i...Failure to meet United Nations sanitation target could affect millions of the world's poorest
... Target 10 was launched in 2000 as part of the U.N. Millennium Development Goals initiative, a global effort by member nations "to meet the needs of the world's poorest." The target is based on data from 1990, when 20 percent of the global population lacked a sa...New agreement helps protect thousands of rice varieties -- the planet's most important food source
... ... The fundi...Universities in San Antonio and Hawaii study safety of assisted reproductive technologies
... "Although there have now been more than 3 million humans conceived by some form of ART, there have been very few studies of potential genetic abnormalities resulting from the...University and health science center in San Antonio collaborate to find chlamydia vaccine
... According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Chlamydia is a common sexually transmitted disease caused by the bacterium, Chlamydia trachomatis, which can damage a woman's reproductive organs. In women, symptoms are usually...University of Colorado influenza chip licensed by Quidel Corp. of San Diego
... The Flu Chip and MChip can be used to determine the genetic makeup of specific influenza strains from patient samples within hours. Current methods take about four days. Identifying flu strains is critical for tracking emerging strains and helping world health officials combat coming epidemics and pa...Burnham Institute for Medical Research announces affiliation with UC Santa Barbara
... At Burnham-UCSB, Ruoslahti has opened the "Vascular...Sandia research to focus on early detection of harmful algal blooms
... Lane and VanderNoot, a molecular biologist and an analytical chemist, respectively, are both in the Biosystems Research departmen...Sandia researchers discover way to see how a drug attaches to a cell
... ... ... In their paper Shelnutt and Song describe a new way of producin...One signal elicits thousands of answers
Cell signaling mechanisms often transmit information via protein modifications, most importantly the reversible attachment of phosphate, the so-called protein phosphorylation. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried have now developed a technology to identify and quantify the specific sites in proteins that get phosphorylated in answer to certain stimuli in living...Hundreds of thousands of viral species present in the world's oceans
... In a new study published online this week in the open access journal PLoS Biology, Florent Angly, Forest Rohwer, and colleagues detail their metageno...High tech detectives screen thousands of genes, proteins to solve puzzle of lung disease
... ... <p...Effectiveness of certain antidepressants may be influenced by gene variations of individuals
... Initial drug treatments fail in 30 percent to 40 percent of patients with major depression. Pharmacogenetic (the relation of genetic factors to variations in response to drugs) prediction of response is one possibility for improving antidepressant treatment, according to background information in the article. Polymorphisms (occurrence in more than one form) in the serotonin tra...University of California, San Diego-led team discovers how we detect sour taste
... The study, featured on the cover of the August 24 issue of the journal Nature, reports that each of the five basic tastes is detected by distinct taste receptors--proteins that detect taste molecules--in dist...Common anti-depressants similarly safe and effective for treating postpartum depression
... ... "We've been tr...Media registration now open for special nanotechnology tour Sept. 12 in San Francisco
... Renowned nanotech pioneer Paul Alivisatos, Ph.D., of the University of California-Berkeley, will lead the media tour and briefing at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's new Molecular Foundry (<A HREF="http://foundry.lbl...Sandia National Laboratories and Monsanto Company announce cooperative research agreement
... ... "A strategic relationship with Monsanto makes...Studying water quality in Colorado River Delta's Cienega de Santa Clara
... ... The Central Arizona Project (CAP...Burnham Institute for Medical Research & UC San Diego establish Joint Center for Molecular Modeling
(La Jolla, CA, July 20, 2006) A team of researchers, led by Dr. Adam Godzik at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research, is designing tools to accelerate the interpretation, and potential use of, information gleaned from the human genome project. Armed with $2.1 million over the next three years, this consortium, known as the Joint Center for Molecular Modeling, will support scientists from...American Chemical Society national meeting: San Francisco, Sept. 10-14
... Mark your calendars now for the fall meeting of the American Chemical Society, whose 158,000 members comprise the world's largest scientific organization devoted to a single science. Although disasters are the theme, this ACS national meeting offers an amazingly rich variety of...UC San Diego biologists solve plant growth hormone enigma
Gardeners and farmers have used the plant hormone auxin for decades, but how plants produce and distribute auxin has been a long-standing mystery. Now researchers at the University of California, San Diego have found the solution, which has valuable applications in agriculture. ...... The study, published in the July 1 issue of the journal Genes and Development, describes the discovery of a who...American Society for Microbiology to host 46th ICAAC September 27-30 in San Francisco
... ... Known as the preeminent world meeting for presenting new information on clinical and basic research in infectious diseases and anti-infective therapy, ICAAC has also traditionally served as a forum for the introduction of new antimicrobial agents. This year's ICAAC will attract approximately 9,500 attendees from the United States and abroad and ov...Study contradicts USA warning that an antidepressant can cause congenital abnormalities
Prague, Czech Republic: A study carried out by German researchers has failed to show that a popular antidepressant, paroxetine, causes congenital abnormalities if taken by pregnant women, the 22nd annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology heard today (Monday). ...... Dr Wolfgang Paulus said the results were important because they contradicted a warning issued...Sandia tool speeds up environmental cleanup, reopening of contaminated facilities
LIVERMORE, Calif. - A software-based tool developed by Sandia National Laboratories for managing the collection, visualization, and analysis of environmental sampling data is now available to potential licensing partners.... ...Sandia's Building Restoration Operations Optimization Model (BROOM) software system was developed to help decision makers - during the planning phase and throughout actual...